Speaker's Profile

Mr Ashish Acharya has a Master of International Business (M.I.B) from the School of Economics, D.A.V. University, Indore & a P.G. in System Management-System Analysis and Design.

He is handling multiple Agri. Commodity portfolio, rich experience of over 27 Years in International Agri-Business, Key Supply Chain Management with International & Domestic Trading, managing along with Price volatility / Risk Management, Logistics & Operations, Shipping & Chartering, Pricing to Branded Sales & Marketing Team. He has been tagged as the most significant buyer of Soyabean Oil/Sunflower Oil in the World; he Headed a Risk Management Project for 2 Years and was responsible for the development, Analysis, design, formulation & successful Implementation of key in-house risk management strategies/policies which were highly appreciated & approved by world-leading financial Institution “International Finance Corporation (I.F.C) USA” - A member of World Bank. He has been Awarded “GLOBOIL” Professional of the Year 2019.

Currently, he is the vertical & Profit Centre Head of Soft Oils (Soyabean Oil, Sunflower Oil & Rapeseed Oil) & responsible for :

Supply Chain for India’s brand & trading business for six-port base edible oil refineries. Combine veg oil(s) annual refining volume is over  1.6 Million Mt.  Raw material procurement & managing price risk of stocks & Material in transit.

He also deal in Physical & futures markets in domestic & international exchanges, managing a global trading book of soft oil(s) desk & closely following Local & Global S&D research and other worldwide Agri trading activities.

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